Wrapping-paper-folding machine.



, PATBNTED MAR. 22.1904.

I A. DEISER. WRAPPING PAPER FOLDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21, 1903.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WRAPPlNG-PAPER-FOLDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,462, dated March22; 1904.

Application filed gepteiiiber 21, 1903. Serial No. 174,086. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in VVrapping-Paper-Folding Machines; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an improved machine for wrapping folding-paper aroundmincemeat and other moist and semifiuid substances to prevent the juicesthereof from running out and becoming lost and to prevent the outercasing or carton in which the same is inclosed from becoming soiled; andit consists in the construction and combination of devices hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of awrapping-paper-folding machine embodying my improvements, showing thewings thereof disposed in a horizontal position. Fig. 2 is partly anelevation of the same and partly a sectional View taken on the planeindicated by the line a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view, the planeof its section being indicated by the line 6 Z) of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment of my invention here shown I employ a base-plate 1 ofoblong rectangular form, which in practice is supported on the top of atable, counter, or stand and may be secured thereto by means of screwsor other suitable devices 2. On the central portion of the saidbase-plate is a similarly-shaped plate 8. At the corners of the saidplate 3 are bearings 4, '5, and 6, the bearings 4 5 being at oppositesides of the plate 8 and the bearing 6 being at the ends thereof. Afront wing 7, which is preferably of oblong rectangular form andprovided at its ends with ears 8, disposed at right angles thereto andextending from its inner or upper side, is pivotally mounted on a pintleor shaft 9, which is journaled mounted on the pintle or shaft 12, whichis journaled in the bearings 5. The said front and rear wings areprovided on their outer sides with weights 13, which normally open themand dispose them in a horizontal position on the base-plate 1. End wings14, which are preferably of the form here shown and with their outerportions semicircular in shape,- are disposed at the ends of the plate 3and areprovided with pivot shafts or pintles 15, which arejournaled inthe bearings 6. The said pivoted shafts or pintles 15 areprovided attheir ends with outwardly-extended weighted arms 16, which serve tonormally open the wings 14that is to say, to extend them in a hori- 5zo-ntal position from the ends of the plate 3.

A verticallyernovable operating-head 17 which in practice is preferablyT-shaped, is

disposed at a suitable distance below the baseplate 1 and is providedwith vertically-dis- 7 .posedoperating-rods 18, which engage theweight-arm 16 of the pivots of the wings 14 with the operating-rod 19 toengage the under side of the front Wing 7, and with a'similaroperating-rod 20 to engage the under or outer side of the rear wing 10.The operating-rods 18 are somewhat longer than the rod 20, and thelatter is somewhat longer than the rod 19that is to say, the upper endsof the said rods are in different vertical planes.

ears 11 pass on the outer sides of the wings 5 W 14, and the front Wing7 is then turned to a vertical position by the rod 19, so that its lugs8 pass on the outer sides of the wings 14 and between the latter and thelugs 11, the said lugs 8 and 11 overlapping each other, as will 9 beunderstood, and serving to maintain the wings 14 in a vertical position.

A piece of paraflin or oiled wrapping-paper having been placed on theplate 3 and the material to be wrapped having been placed wrapped, ineffect making a coverless box out of the wrapping-paper, and theoperator then folds the upturned edges of the paper appropriately overthe substance and completes the 5 wrapping of the same.

17 is then lowered, thereby causing the operating-rods to disengage therespective wings and the weights of the latter to cause them to reassumetheir normal horizontally-extended Io position, and the wrapped materialis then removed from the plate 8. Within the scope of my invention anysuitable means may be employed for operating the head 17. I here showcoiled extensile springs 21 on the rods 5 18 19 20 to depress them, andthe head 17 and an operating-cord 22, engaged with a directionsheave 23and having its ends attached, respectively, to the head 17 and to apedal 21 for raising said head and rods to turn the 20 wings to avertical position.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without re- 5' quiring a more extendedexplanation.

' Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle'orsacrificing any of the advantages of 3 this invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wrapping-paper-folding machine com- The operating-head prising afixed central portion, atable onwhich it is secured, side wingspivotally mounted at opposite sides of the table, having Weights tolower them and provided at their ends with lugs at right angles thereto,to overlap at the ends of the fixed central portion, pivotallymountedend wings at the ends of the fixed central portion, a vertically-movableoperating-head below the table, means to actuate the head, rods, ofunequal length, projecting from the upper side of the head, guides forsaid rods, and springs to depress the head,

said rods on. the upstroke of the head successively upturning the endand side wings inthe order named, the overlapping end lugs of the sidewings passing over the outer sides of the end wings, substantially asdescribed.

2. A folding-machine of the class described, comprising a relativelyfixed center piece, wings at the sides thereof adapted to be turned toan upright position, oppositely-disposed wings, having fixed cooperatinglug portions at right angles thereto to pass on the outer sides of thefirst-mentioned wings when the wings are in an upright position, andmeans to operate the wings.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ALBERT A. DEISER.

Witnesses:

FRED. F. ALLEN, OSCAR M. OLSEN.

